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Easy Does It, Mom

Parenting in Recovery

by Barbara Joy
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"A chance for moms to catch their breath and refocus . . . Embracing the lessons . . . will help you to continue to make the world a better place."—Mary Rita Schilke Korzan, author of When You Thought I Wasn't Looking: A Book of Thanks for Mom

Every mom wants to succeed. Every child also wants to succeed. In Easy Does It, Mom, Barbara Joy provides moms with positive encouragement, knowledge, and tools they can begin using immediately as they continue their recovery and move toward being the best moms they can be. Joy relies on experts with degrees and experts with "mom" behind their name.

For more than ten years, Barbara Joy has worked with moms in recovery from alcoholism and other addictions. She knows what works. Plus, she includes real-life stories and strategies from the moms and children she works with. The reader is guided by a professional and encouraged and inspired by moms who have "been there, done that." Because moms in recovery feel more safe and secure in a familiar and consistent environment, each chapter begins with an encouraging saying and ends with a writing activity, plus between four to eight clear and concise keys are presented in the chapter—an at-a-glance tools reference section. For moms in recovery, Barbara says, "Other than your recovery, I believe that parenting is the most important job you'll ever do. It may also very well be the hardest job you'll ever do. And, for sure, the most rewarding!"
"So moms read Barbara Joy's words of wisdom and raise children who will make a difference and until she writes Easy Does It, Dad I recommend that fathers read it too."—Bernie Siegel, M.D., #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Medicine and Miracles

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  • Release date

    May 22, 2020

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781609250768

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781609250768
      • File size: 1201 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      April 20, 2009
      Verdict: Joy, a parenting coach with a clinical background in child development, addresses a long-neglected audience in a clear, coherent, and respectful voice. Larger libraries should purchase to strengthen their recovery and parenting collections. Background: Joy focuses on "positive parenting" stressing encouragement and positive reinforcement (rather than punishment), as well as incorporating gratitude and humor into the family's lifestyle. Among the issues explored are coping with shame and anger, working toward forgiveness and better self-esteem, and prioritizing tasks and self-care. Each chapter concludes with a journaling activity, a restatement of key points, and affirmations. References to the likelihood that recovering mothers were themselves victims of poor parenting might lead vulnerable readers to feel guilty about their own pre-recovery parenting mistakes, which is unfortunate; blame should not really be the issue.-Antoinette Brinkman, MLS, Evansville, IN

      Copyright 2009 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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  • English

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